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Baltasar and Blimunda

by Jose Saramago

Published: 1998-11-05

Paperback: 360 pages

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From the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, a ?brilliant...enchanting novel? (New York Times Book Review) of romance, deceit, religion, and magic set in eighteenth-century Portugal at the height of the Inquisition. National bestseller. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.

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Baltazar I Blimunda

by Jose Saramago

Published: 1999

Hardcover: 390 pages

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Jan V, wladca Portugalii na poczqtku XVIII wieku, pragnie syna i slubuje po jego narodzinach wzniesc ogromny klasztor. Gdy krolowa zachodzi w ciqze, przyszly ojciec, chcqc dotrzymac obietnicy, kladzie kamicn weglelny pod badowc monumentalncj bazyliki. W tym samym czasic - czasie plonacych stosow inkwizycji...

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Baltimore Blues (Tess Monaghan Mysteries)

by Laura Lippman

Published: 1997-02-01

Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages

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"Courier New" Until her paper, the BALTIMORE STAR, crashed and burned, Tess Monaghan was a damn good reporter who knew her hometown intimately--from historic Fort McHenry to the crumbling projects of Cherry Hill. Now gainfully unemployed at twenty-nine, she's willing to take any freelance ...

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Baltoji Gelele Ir Paslaptingoji Vednuokle (Lithuanian translation of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan)

by Lisa See

Published: 2005

Hardcover: 0 pages

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5.5 x 8.5 inches. 335 pages. Lithuanian translation of Lisa See's novel, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.

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* * * Interesting,
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

by Dai Sijie

Published: 2002-10-29

Paperback: 184 pages

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New York Times BestsellerBalzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is an enchanting tale that captures the magic of reading and the wonder of romantic awakening. An immediate international bestseller, it tells the story of two hapless city boys exiled to a remote mountain village for re-ed...

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Banana Heart Summer

by Merlinda Bobis

Published: 2008-05-20

Paperback: 257 pages

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In her lush, luminous debut novel, Merlinda Bobis creates a dazzling feast for all the senses. Richly imagined, gloriously written, Banana Heart Summer is an incandescent tale of food, family, and longing?at once a love letter to mothers and daughters and a lively celebration of friendship...

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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World

by Dan Koeppel

Published: 2008-12-30

Paperback: 304 pages

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In the vein of the bestselling Salt and Cod, a gripping chronicle of the myth, mystery, and uncertain fate of the world's most popular fruit In this fascinating and surprising exploration of the banana's history, cultural significance, and endangered future, award-winning journalist Dan Ko...

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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

by Stephen E. Ambrose

Published: 2001-09-06

Paperback: 336 pages

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Stephen E. Ambrose’s iconic story of the ordinary men who became the World War II’s most extraordinary soldiers: Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, US Army.They came together, citizen soldiers, in the summer of 1942, drawn to Airborne by the $50 m...

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Bang!

by Sharon Flake

Published: 2007-08-01

Paperback: 304 pages

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Bang! Guns really sound like that, you know. Bang! And people bleed from everywhere, and blood is redder than you think. And little kids look funny in caskets. That's ?cause they ain?t meant to be in one, I guess.Mann is only thirteen, yet he has already had to deal with more than most go ...

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Bangkok 8

by John Burdett

Published: 2004-08-02

Paperback: 432 pages

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Electrifying, darkly comic, razor-edged—a thriller unlike any other.Under a Bangkok bridge, inside a bolted-shut Mercedes: a murder by snake—a charismatic African American Marine sergeant killed by a methamphetamine-stoked python and a swarm of stoned cobras.Two cops—the ...